, 1887-06-18
TOWN TALK.
Cosby Little Paragraphs Picked UP
Throughout the City.

John F. Reynolds post, G.. A. r.. held
a meeting last night.
The highest temperature yesterday was
$50. 1t was the warmest day of the
season.
A large number of ~prospectors are said
to be scattered over various PORTIONS of
Carbon county.
The Union Pacific burnettizing works
at Laramie have suspended operations,
throwing about fifty men out of employ
ment,
The A. o. U. w. have s%urmounted all
difficulties, and will give n grand excur-
sion over the Cheyenne & Noern on
the 26th inst.
The horse disease called CHAMBERS is cpl
demic in the Platte valley, Carbon county.
DIR. Hopkins is now visiting the locality
in the capacity of territorial veterinarian.
The only excursion over the Cheyenne
Il Northern this summer will be June 20,
1887. Be sure and go if you want to see
the new railroad and have a days enjoy
ment.
Bergersen and Cook, the Wyoming
delegates to the Omaha Gun clubs tour
nament, are doing some fine shooting,
but have as yet failed to capture any
prizes.
d G. Rhodes yesterday presented II
Q. Frese. contrac or for Robiuson's cir
Gus, with an elegant cane. suitably in
scribed. The circus will exhibit in this
city July 3.
The county library will be thrown open
for the use of the public in about three
weeks. 1t will contain in the neighbor.
hood of 100 volumes, and will be free as
the Wyoming breezes.
For the first time for 10, these many
moons, no transfers were filed for record
in the Office of the county clerk,
but business there promises to be rushing
in the course of a day or two.
Judge Wolcott. of Fort Fetterman.
well known in Cheyenne, has been sued
tor $25. 900 by one Rudolph Backman,
who claims that the judge was the cause
of his alleged false imprisonment.
Base ball is by far the most popular
out door sport of the day. Lawn tennis
and croquet parties are daily broken up
by the contestants inauRurating games of
catch with the wooden and rubber spheres.
The average small boy is getting in his
work in elegant shape on the gopher and
prairie dog. just l47 scalps of the bur
rowing rodents were presented at the
county clerks Office for the usual bounty
yesterday.
A private letter received from Rawlins
tells the recipient that preparations are
being made to celebrate the Fourth on a
grand scale in that village. Foot races,
horse races and a fireman's tournament
will constitute the amusements of the
day.
Contrary to general expectation the
answer of the defendant in tho Waid d.
vorce suit did not paterialize at the Office
of the clerk of the court yesterday, and it
is now said that the document will not
put in an appearance until Nh. Waid's
return from tho North some time next
month.
Peter Nelson, the deluded individual
who mistook an ulster for a linen duster
the other day and appropriated the same
to his own use, will pass ten days in the
county jail to mediate over the folly OF
stealing an eight pound overcoat with the
mercury roaming around among the
Gig! ties.
A sporting gentleman in this city is in
active correspondence with the managers
of Ike Weir and Tommy Warren, the
featherweights, endeavoring TO have their
$l5, 900 take place here. The
meeting will not be a brutal fight or
knock out, but sinply a scientific sIarring
exhibition for points.
Coroner Chafin returned from the
North last night, whittier he went to hold
an inquest over the dead body of a man
supposed to be the missing Rice. He re-
ports the entire story to be an enormous
hoax. The practical Joke was engineered
by a Platte river ranchman, and was GER
tainly highly successful.
A particularly aggravating case was
tried in Judge Fishers office Yesterday
afternoon, it being the examination of a
william arrested by Officer Sullivan for in
sulting two little girls. As there was no
law providing for the misdemeanor, the
prisoner was discharged after receiving a
severe reprimand from Judge Fisher.
Lost.